I went up there with a friend and th1 (thf sub) as a 73 war, and got three of the scrolls in about 1.5 hrs. Also, got two Katon scrolls, so that was nice. Hope this gives hope to you scroll farmers out there.

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"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

To endorse the previous few messages: since I didn't feel like doing anything in particular, I spent much of the day as RDM75/BLM37 beating up these yagudo and their friends. I got one scroll each of Raiton: Ni and Katon: Ni, plus a Dragonfoe Mambo and a few Juji Shuriken in Castle Oztroja. I wondered whether the higher-level yagudo in Castle Zvahl might be more generous and spent a couple of hours there similarly. I got NO drops at all, which leaves me wondering whether these simply can't drop anything. I'm going to farm/mine/BCNM the cash and buy the rest of my scrolls on the AH!

In case it provides a useful data point for anyone (I'm not myself convinced that drops are influenced by moon phase), this was over a new moon period.

Killing these with the hopes of a nin scroll dropping is not a good plan unless u wish to invest 1-3 hours per scroll with TH2. Personally, i think it would be a much wiser investment of time farming a more easily obtainable drop and buying the scrolls with profits.

With TH2 i soloed these as a 55 thf for 2 hours with 1 drop. All in all it was a waste of time because in that 2 hours i couldve made much more from farming more common drops. Don't even try this w/o TH2, u may get lucky ith 1 drop, but don't expect to become rich from this.

I spent a good three and a half hours killing these guys yesterday as I had 3/6 level 40 NIN scrolls (each 5k), but Hyoton, Doton, and Suiton were 70k. So, I go as SMN75/THF18 (go gimp sub!) to Castle Oztroja. There was an anon RDM killing them too, but I quickly found out the spawns and got 0 Ni scroll drops in three hours of constant killing.

Which brings you to an outdoor area and map #5. There's a spawn in the NW and NE rooms on map #5. Repops are about 15mins.

Go back the way you came to map #2. Go to transition 'D'. (Head North, and then West, it's blocked the other way.) This brings you to map #6. There's a spawn in the SE room, and the NE room. Kill those, and walk to transition 'H' for the last set of spawns.

From 'H' you get to map #7. This is where you'll find the majority of the Conquistadors. There's quite a few spawns in this room. Make a right once you get through the long tunnel, and you'll see a Conq before the first left turn. As you get to the box-shaped area at (G-9) there's another on the outter square of the map. If you walk towards the water in the center there's one on the way there, and one in the room with the pool of water. Backtrack, and continue South to the one-way gate at (H-9). Pass through and continue to the SE corner for another spawn. Then go North, and you'll find the last one on the steps.

That's all the spawns I found yesterday.

The drop rate is awful, but if you can follow what I said it'll make finding them easier. You can also get lucky and get Hyoton: Ni on your first kill like a guy from my LS did. I certainly wasn't though.

I'm now 6/6 on them, having gotten them all from the AH for stupidly high prices. Try underbidding as it seems RMT sell most of them, and they tend to undercut each other quite a bit (61k for two scrolls that were 70-75k previously).

Oh yes Drg/blu got one suiton drop placed it on AH for 170k ran back to my Mog house and it had already sold :D. Unfortunatly my Y died in the next fight and i died but i'm heading back now to get more scrolls. I LOVE THESE GUYS! GIL AND A LITTLE EXP YAY!

cant get hyoton ni to drop :/ and thats primarially (<--is that spelled right ?) the one i use bc i can make it with alchemy for cheap :D. its 200k on cereberus as of feb/06 must not be a common drop. got all the other elemental cept doton did get a bunch of shurikens :P

Follow the map on this site to A, then to E. It's a ledge above the area Quu Domi spawns in. I'm sure they are in other areas, but there are also Treasure Chest spawns here, and an NM not too far away.

I've noticed that these bird creatures have an almost priestly semi south american theme going on in them. There is a melded themeatic going through the Yagudos and it's no surprize to see a Yagudo Conquistador walking around Castle Oztroja. I kind of wish the Conquistador had a cool Spanish sword... now that would be radical.

Of all the beastmen, I have the most empathy for the noble Yagudo. If they make a sequel in the next online installment, I would want to play as a Yagudo (because not all of them are bad, remember, Windurst made a truce pact with some of them).

also, "Dead Souls" is a cool song from Joy Division

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What is in the Empire of Aht Urhgan...? Just treasure..? Something else...? Is the Divine Empress a reborn Altana on earth..? I wonder what is in store for us.

Wish I had realized that this guy drops the lvl 40 spells. Would have saved me a good 100k:(... I had previously thought that only the lvl 60 guy dropped them... Oh well, will probably get the drops when I go for my testimony... and make my gil back... I hope:P

um... "Re: coffer key:" ....I believe, last time I checked, coffer keys and treasure chest keys were different... this guy was talking about coffer keys. THEY DO NOT drop coffer keys, and like you said, they do drop treasure chest keys

was wandering around castle ostroja last night (at lvl 30 mnk) killing a few votaries when I saw the spam of one casting Utsusemi:_NI_ so one would assume it has the others...would hate to meet him in a dark alley hehe.